V. S. Naipaul Quotes
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I don't know anything about music.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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A true champion will fight through anything.
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At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
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I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
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You have to live life to its full chorizo.
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It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.
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The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
